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NAMM 2025: Latest news, rumours and updates
LA wildfires threaten the world’s biggest musical instrument expo, but as things stand, it will still go ahead. Here’s what we know so far
Best iPad for musicians and producers 2025: My pick of Apple tablets for all levels of music maker
Apple's iPads can now comfortably handle every music production task, but which is most suited to your needs? I put the whole range under the microscope
Rob Lowe: “I got it into my head that I should think more about music and I cut a demo with Toto”
“I took having fun very seriously,” he says
Musicians should be inspired by AI in the same way that he was inspired by Prince, says will.i.am
"Prince's awesomeness did not dim my light. Prince's awesomeness inspired me. And if you are now going to be afraid of being inspired, then you ain't truly creative"
Prince’s ability to keep time when he was recording drums was remarkable, says his engineer
“He would say ‘OK, that’s so close, cut it one more time,’ and I wouldn’t do it because I physically couldn’t cut a 16th of an inch without chowdering the tape”
“Stick to our chords”: Chris Martin rags Jacob Collier for his reharmonisation antics
“I’m the worst musician in this room!” he admits
Here's what Max Martin said to Ryan Tedder about Taylor Swift and music production
Best of 2024: The OneRepublic frontman was also discussing writing and producing songs with Adele and Beyoncé
Gwen Stefani on the No Doubt song that “changed everything” after it became their biggest hit
Best of 2024: She says she had “absolutely no idea” that it would become so successful
Was Prince’s While My Guitar Gently Weeps guitar solo played in anger?
Best of 2024: The magazine had omitted him from its list of the greatest guitarists of all time
How Prince’s final, legendary guitar performance on SNL was saved by a quick-thinking audio engineer
Best of 2024: His 8-minute medley from 2014 is considered one of the greatest musical spots in the show’s history
Beabadoobee on her unorthodox guitar style and how it helped her to gel with Rick Rubin
Best of 2024: “I think what I really go off with, and what Rick really goes off with, is what you feel and the vibe and what you hear,” she says
“After listening with a clear mind,” SZA is changing some of the mixes on the album she just released
“This means nothing to you but had to say it for me,” she told her fans
Billie Eilish discusses her “dream” Charli XCX collaboration on the Guess remix
It took place “in the greatest way possible,” she says
Dua Lipa on how high-end monitors can fool you into thinking that your songs are better than they are
“It’s crazy how you can really kid yourself in the moment,” she says. “The best thing to do is to listen to it on not so good headphones”
The most-learned guitar and piano songs of 2024 have been revealed
It turns out that The Eagles are still pretty popular, too…
Chris Martin: “I'm as obsessed with Mary Poppins as I am with Radiohead”
“Songs pop up everywhere. They wake you up, songs”
Why two of the biggest songs of 2024 ended up being mashed-up with a Christmas classic
It’s a (D) major coincidence
“Michael and Quincy tried to steal it”: The Chaka Khan hit that could have ended up on Thriller
“Ironically, I would have been on that version anyway, but it wouldn’t have been nearly as hip,” he says
We Are Rewind “brings back the funk” with Chromeo-flavoured personal cassette player
Shiny portable audio device ships with a limited edition version of the band’s Adult Contemporary album
"Makes my job easy”: Dr Dre says that the current hip-hop scene doesn’t inspire him
“When Dr Dre makes music, his music don't sound like nobody else's music,” says Snoop
Olivia Rodrigo and Chappell Roan producer Dan Nigro on why solo artists have replaced bands
"People are just less inclined in general to get together to make music, cause you don’t have to," he argues
Kylie Minogue’s collaboration with Prince had been lost for more than 30 years, but it’s just leaked
We finally get to hear a Prince demo version of the mythical Baby Doll, which Kylie wrote the lyrics for but never recorded
“She’s brilliant at what she does. She’s a true artist": Billy Corgan respects Chappell Roan
“I tend to look at the talent and the brilliance of what the artist is trying to put together"
